How to Use look ahead in a Sentence

look ahead

phrasal verb
  • Don’t look ahead, just look at what’s in front of us today.
    Kristian Winfield, New York Daily News, 14 June 2024
  • The player looked ahead that number of spaces on the map.
    Matthew Wynn Sivils, Smithsonian Magazine, 21 May 2024
  • These stunning looks ahead need to be talked about in detail.
    Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 15 Mar. 2024
  • The leather planner offers month and day-at-a-view pages for looking ahead.
    Sophie Dweck, Town & Country, 3 Aug. 2023
  • Here are takeaways from the spring sales — and a periscope look ahead at the biggest trends emerging in the art market.
    Zachary Small, New York Times, 19 May 2024
  • The festival is the perfect farewell to summer, and a great way to look ahead to the spring planting season.
    Elizabeth Brownfield, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • In her acceptance video, Minaj looked ahead to her next big project.
    Katie Atkinson, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2023
  • So grab a pen and paper and prepare to take notes on Beckham’s most notable looks ahead.
    Alexis Bennett Parker, Vogue, 17 Apr. 2024
  • But back then, music was something of an afterthought for the rapper when asked to look ahead to the future.
    Larisha Paul, Rolling Stone, 31 Jan. 2024
  • Latham foregoed the team’s 24-hour rule of celebrating wins and looked ahead.
    Nick Alvarez | Nalvarez@al.com, al, 6 Sep. 2023
  • Ski season may be winding down, but the Ikon Pass is already looking ahead to next season with its lowest price and a host of new perks.
    Alison Fox, Travel + Leisure, 14 Mar. 2024
  • That’s hardly the reassurance that the Party craves looking ahead to 2024.
    Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 9 Nov. 2023
  • Even before the verdict had been delivered, Trump and his team were looking ahead to the next major judgment to be cast on him: the 2024 election.
    Tessa Berenson Rogers, TIME, 30 May 2024
  • The primaries are over, and Cincinnati-area voters can now look ahead to November's drama.
    Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 1 Apr. 2024
  • As Paris looks ahead to the Olympic and Paralympic Games, organizers still have challenges ahead.
    Colette Davidson, The Christian Science Monitor, 4 June 2024
  • While the first performance is this evening, MacKnight is already looking ahead.
    Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online, 23 Sep. 2023
  • The Biden campaign also was looking ahead to November’s vote.
    Story Hinckley, The Christian Science Monitor, 30 May 2024
  • Schultz is looking ahead to the next part of his career, which could look very similar to the previous part, just minus his mother.
    Thomas Gounley, The Denver Post, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Now, the venue will be filled with artists, dancers, acrobats and surprise performers to celebrate the end of this year’s Olympics and look ahead to the Los Angeles Games in 2028.
    NBC News, 12 Aug. 2024
  • This latest segment of secondhand treasures pays tribute to just that, with a look ahead to spring dressing.
    By Megan O'Sullivan, Vogue, 27 June 2024
  • With President Biden now out of the running, the Democratic Party is already looking ahead to what's next.
    Mary Cunningham, CBS News, 24 July 2024
  • Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets and a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 21 June 2024
  • Amid signs of that Pacific warm current starting to build anew, climatologists looked ahead to next year as the time when all hell might break loose.
    Bill McKibben, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2023
  • Building on the surging wave of support, All Classical Radio is looking ahead with big plans.
    James Bash | , oregonlive, 19 Sep. 2023
  • Each look ahead can speak to every way of luxuriating under the summer sun, and at every size.
    Halie Lesavage, Harper's BAZAAR, 22 June 2023
  • Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.
    Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 26 Jan. 2024
  • Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 2 Aug. 2024
  • Each report will include information on small-, medium-, and heavy-lift rockets, as well as a quick look ahead at the next three launches on the calendar.
    Stephen Clark, Ars Technica, 10 Nov. 2023
  • Quinn recommends looking ahead to make sure workouts fit your schedule.
    Ariana Yaptangco, Glamour, 25 Dec. 2023
  • Welcome to the first installment of a Hotline series looking ahead to the Big 12 race — a race with 16 teams, no divisions and plenty of parity.
    Jon Wilner, The Mercury News, 15 May 2024

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